Inquiries about my overclock.
Inquiries about my overclock.
Hello everyone! I built this PC almost two years ago, around when Skylake was released, and I got a 6600k and an ASRock Z170 Extreme4. It was my first time assembling a PC and I haven’t really done any overclocking before (though I know it’s not ideal 😛). Today, I decided to take the plunge and overclocked my CPU to 4.4 at a 1.265 vcore in Fixed mode. I have a few questions. I heard that “fixed mode” doesn’t lower the voltage when the system is idle. Will this make a difference? I’m planning to keep this CPU and motherboard for at least a year, maybe a little longer before upgrading to an X99 model this year or next. Also, I set the vcore to 1.265 in the BIOS, but Aida64 and AIDA64 monitor show it as 1.296 for some reason. What’s going on here? Here’s a screenshot:
Thanks in advance!
fixed/manual mode does not decrease voltage when CPU is idling.
there is an adaptive mode. I usually set 0.001v for offset and whatever i want for the "additional voltage" ... those names are from ASUS bios, so yours might be different a bit.
there is no issue to keep the fixed mode. do degrade a CPU within short period (couple of years) a 1.4v or/and high temps are required.
regarding voltages - use HWInfo64 - it displays per core voltages. they might be slightly (0.00x difference) different from what you set in bios but not that much as you see.
fixed/manual mode does not decrease voltage when CPU is idling.
there is an adaptive mode. I usually set 0.001v for offset and whatever i want for the "additional voltage" ... those names are from ASUS bios, so yours might be different a bit.
there is no issue to keep the fixed mode. do degrade a CPU within short period (couple of years) a 1.4v or/and high temps are required.
regarding voltages - use HWInfo64 - it displays per core voltages. they might be slightly (0.00x difference) different from what you set in bios but not that much as you see.
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fixed/manual mode does not decrease voltage when CPU is idling.
there is an adaptive mode. I usually set 0.001v for offset and whatever i want for the "additional voltage" ... those names are from ASUS bios, so yours might be different a bit.
there is no issue to keep the fixed mode. do degrade a CPU within short period (couple of years) a 1.4v or/and high temps are required.
regarding voltages - use HWInfo64 - it displays per core voltages. they might be slightly (0.00x difference) different from what you set in bios but not that much as you see.
HWiNFO64 reports 1.175-1.205 per core and for the vcore 1.296 and the max it went was 1.312 (!?). Temps look fine. Should I do the offset voltage thing? ASrock's settings seems different from the others and most guides use the "Fixed mode". Is it something I should stress over?